Kaspersky victim of Trojan attack

Leading Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Labs has sounded the alarm over a Trojan TrojanDownloader. Win32. Apher. ...more

Apple's Tim Cook provides recipe for iPhone success

Apple's ability to keep innovating and make the 'best' products is down to hiring people who want to make them and providing an atmosphere to challenge them to do so, Tim Cook, the company's chief operating officer, said yesterday. Cook's remarks came at the beginning of a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium, in which he discussed the forthcoming iPhone and the reasons behind many of the technology choices in the phone/iPod/communicator. Cook's boss, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, unveiled the iPhone at the beginning of the year, and yesterday Cook echoed Jobs' claim that it will revolutionise the phone market. ...more

P2P activity doubles in two years

Despite the best efforts of the music industry, peer-to-peer activity has more than doubled over the past two years according to the latest figures from a p2p tracking service. Big Champagne reports that in September the average number of people logged onto p2p networks worldwide was 9,284,558. In September 2003 the figure was 4,319,182. ...more

Comment: Is Apple in a muddle over the iMac?

Apple has upgraded the entry-level 'Fast' iMac with more powerful graphics and a faster processor, but it leaves the model sitting outside Apple's current marketing strategy. Previously the specification of the entry-level model matched that of the old mid-range model, sharing the Rage 128 Pro graphics card and the same 500MHz processor. The upgraded model has a 128 Ultra graphics card and a souped-up 500MHz processor with 256K of level 2 cache at 500MHz. ...more

EC calls for home-networking investment

The European Commission wants EU member states to invest €2.7bn, (?1.86bn) in research into computers that control household and consumers devices. ...more